It seems that porn aggregators (pornotube, thehun, etc...) would keep you somewhat safe from just happening across a link like this. For one, they probably would not link to a blank site. And two, if they check links (which I do not know whether or not they do) they too would be raided (if they are in the US). Granted this would take some time (by which it may be too late for you) but they are not going to want to take this chance any more than you do. I would not bet my life on this safety since I have seen (and quickly closed) some pages even off of these sites where I was not 100% sure the girls were of age. But still...it has to be better than just random surfing.
Is it just me or does this seem to have most of what a person needs in a word processor? I have been reading the other comments and I think I am the only one who liked it. "But...", people say, "...there are no arbitrary font sizes...you are limited to 7." I for one do not care. I rarely use more than a couple of sizes in my documents anyway. "Well...", people say, "it does not translate word docs very well." This is not a problem if you use this program as a replacement for word or if you use simple documents. "How about word count, or borders, or document map or...?" Ok, so it does not do everything. However, for most documents I work on none, of these things are necessary. Who cares how many words I have typed, or if I can insert a border? I generally do not. I need to type a letter or a report that has bullets, numbered points, a few sizes and fonts, alignments and some indents. Page numbers would be a nice addition sometimes but that may be in the works. What else do you really need most of the time? About the only crucial thing I find missing is spell check but it appears that they are working on this since it is a grayed out option. Besides, for now I will use the Google tool bar for spelling check.
If you want to have a watermark or if you need more than 7 text sizes or more fonts or type-along-a-line or whatever... use a DTP program. For text processing I think they have the right idea. Put out a version with basic features and then add the ones most requested. This runs counter to the standard of adding every feature imaginable and then paying for (in disk space and in dollars) and not using most of them. I am not saying that this is wholesale replacement for word in all cases but, I think it is a lot more than most people seem to be giving it credit for.
I for one will have to start watching this 'Without a Trace' show much closer in the hopes^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H to make sure no one has to see this type of thing again! Since they say you can not define pornography but can point it out when you see it, as part of my crusade against this smut I may have to watch the entire collection of Girls-Gone-Wild videos so that I know what it is that I am looking for. If only the internet could help me in my research...hmmm...off to Google.
Seriously, is this the best thing people have to do with their time? In the time it took these people to write a complaint to the FCC they could have talked to their kids and probably done a lot more good. My kids are way under the age bracket to worry much about shows like this but, if I felt they were old enough to watch 'Without a Trace' with me (even though it was probably obvious from the beginning of the show that it was going to involve teen sex.) and this part snuck up on us ("How odd...the start of the show was about kittens and ducks and then, after the commercial break, BAM! teen orgy!") I think I would perhaps ask them to leave the room. Or, depending upon their age and maturity level, talk to them about what we just saw and what they thought about it. I would then have an opportunity to hear how and what they think and to pass on some of my values. If my wife and I have been doing a decent job, those two things should not be worlds apart.
Sorry for the rant but people need to start taking responsibility for themselves and their families! Keeping 'dirty' stuff off the airwaves is not your job as a parent. Teaching and showing your kids right from wrong is.
But only if you sit by the window near Milton Waddams "...I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were married, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much..." Gotta love Office Space! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/
Like many others, I did not attempt to view the video of the airsoft hack but, the link below shows a similar idea, although with a paint ball gun, which tracks very quickly. This also looks to be more sturdy.
While not as cool as the one in this article and probably not quite what the former submariner is looking for...My 5yo son and I have fun with the RC submarine we picked up at Walmart for $19.99. Once you get it properly balanced, it is just slightly positively buoyant. This means that you have to always provide downward thrust to keep it submerged but it also means that you are less likely to lose it. For $20 it is fairly sturdy and gives you full control: forward/reverse, left/right submerge/surface All using 3 or 4 thrusters. 3 or 4 because I do not remember if left/right are one reversable or two independent thrusters. Submerge/surface uses one reversable as does (obviously) the main prop. This was $ well spent.
I think you hit the nail on the head. It's the control they do not want to lose. The number of contracts each of their states gets will probably not change much. After all, I would imagine that it will be the companies who already do this sort of thing who will win most of the prizes.
It would be tough for a startup to win when competing against the likes of Lockheed Missile and Space or who ever. They already have money, infrastructure, staff, experience, etc...
The only thing I see changing some is that you will have other large companies getting into the game, which may shift some small amount of the money to other states. For instance, if there is a prize to build a rover, Ford may decide that they are much of the way there and enter the contest. Assuming they win, some NASA money will get shifted to Michigan. A state which, up until that time, may not have gotten many aerospace contracts.
Having said all of that. I think it is a GREAT idea and, while I do not believe it will suddenly tear down the walls keeping the small guy out of the rocket ship business (as some of the posts have suggested) I do think that it would be a fantastic to save moeny and open things up a bit.
Hopefully we can convince the govt types that they will not be losing $, only a bit of control (not sure which is more important to them, probably the control since they have enough $)
The flip side of this is if we can convince the historically non-aerospace states that this is their chance to get in the game. Perhaps, if there are enough of them, they could tip the scales and get this passed / funded. I hate to vote against my home state (California (southern at lest) has received a fair amount of the NASA budget) but, again, in reality I believe most of the prizes will be one by the same groups as get the contracts now.
James
In summary...it will not change the who nearly as much as it will change the how (as in how much money NASA can save.).
Why is some sort of Reveal Codes not on all word processors?
It gave word processing, HTML like features but, only when you wanted them. I can not tell you how many times I have gotten stuck in modern versions of word with underline or bold or whatever, being over zealous. It wants to do the entire word or line or what ever.
Using my trusty WP 5.1 for DOS (loaded off of a single floppy (double density no less) on an old PS/1) I could hit F11 and (as Emeril says) BAM!! There is the [BOLD] and the [bold] tag. I could move either of them right where I wanted them.
That was almost 20 years ago...damn...I may be old...
Back in my day, where I grew up...Dunsmuir CA...we drove to Medford for fun! And listened to KTMT because we liked Charly and Dan-o and the Morning Zoo crew...(now where is my 'Nu Shooz' tape?)
Ok so that was a long time ago (around 30 - 25 yesrs ago or so) but still...
Ok, perhaps you are loosing something. You are loosing the H2O to create electricity. However, you are not LOSING anythihng.
James
--
Want to be your own boss?
Whit if, however you decide to get the power (wind, solar, hydro, etc...) you use some of the electricity you gather, to pump water up into a storage tank or a small pond that is at a higher grade? Then, when you need it, you let it fall back down into the river, and generate some power on its way. There will obviously be some loss but, if you use power that you do not need / are not able to sell back to the grid anyway, you are not really loosing anything. Eliminating some batteries would also eliminate some of the environmental impact that old batteries have when they are EOL. I think they did something like this on the Columbia River (perhaps a bit bigger scale than you are looking for, but the idea is the same.)
James
--
Want to be your own boss?
1) Drink Bawls
2) turn the emptys into lamps and drinking glasses
3) ?
4) Profit!!
I just mentioned it above but, now that I know you are using Debian, it is especially APT (get it? Ha ha ha). Check out FAI . As I said before, I have never used it but it looks like it may be just the thing.
I have not used it but I have seen a little bit about Debian's FAI It looks like it combines a lot of the good ideas from the other suggestions (no CD's required and Kickstart type of install) And, if you combined it with a cache of the packages for apt-get or used the mkdebmirror script, you would also lessen the network load.
-I learned in health class that sig's will stunt yoru growth
That sounds like questions 10 and 11 from the server survey. How do you answer those? I may have misread them but they sounded like a very loaded questions to me.
No more MP3's. People will start trading record groove files. Down load and 'press' your own 45's!
Who's with me? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
For the age challenged, a 45 is a record...it was a little bigger than a CD but served the same purpose. (except for hanging it from the rear view mirror...which you should not do anyway as it does not look cool)
Thats all for today, class.
Next weeks vocabulary lesson will include such terms as: Album and 'b' side
Slashdot Mirror
I am waiting for the first law that has the tag "copyright Sony 2011 all rights reserved" it is probably not far off.
Not one mention of the BoGo lights? Sun Night Solar has been doing this for a long time.
http://www.sunnightsolar.com/
This plan even lets you get one for your self. I have not ordered yet but I still may.
James
It seems that porn aggregators (pornotube, thehun, etc...) would keep you somewhat safe from just happening across a link like this. For one, they probably would not link to a blank site. And two, if they check links (which I do not know whether or not they do) they too would be raided (if they are in the US). Granted this would take some time (by which it may be too late for you) but they are not going to want to take this chance any more than you do.
I would not bet my life on this safety since I have seen (and quickly closed) some pages even off of these sites where I was not 100% sure the girls were of age. But still...it has to be better than just random surfing.
Does that mean that then new Payless tag will change from BoGo to BlowGo? Great marketing!
Is it just me or does this seem to have most of what a person needs in a word processor? I have been reading the other comments and I think I am the only one who liked it.
... use a DTP program. For text processing I think they have the right idea. Put out a version with basic features and then add the ones most requested. This runs counter to the standard of adding every feature imaginable and then paying for (in disk space and in dollars) and not using most of them.
"But...", people say, "...there are no arbitrary font sizes...you are limited to 7." I for one do not care. I rarely use more than a couple of sizes in my documents anyway.
"Well...", people say, "it does not translate word docs very well." This is not a problem if you use this program as a replacement for word or if you use simple documents.
"How about word count, or borders, or document map or...?" Ok, so it does not do everything. However, for most documents I work on none, of these things are necessary. Who cares how many words I have typed, or if I can insert a border? I generally do not.
I need to type a letter or a report that has bullets, numbered points, a few sizes and fonts, alignments and some indents. Page numbers would be a nice addition sometimes but that may be in the works. What else do you really need most of the time? About the only crucial thing I find missing is spell check but it appears that they are working on this since it is a grayed out option. Besides, for now I will use the Google tool bar for spelling check.
If you want to have a watermark or if you need more than 7 text sizes or more fonts or type-along-a-line or whatever
I am not saying that this is wholesale replacement for word in all cases but, I think it is a lot more than most people seem to be giving it credit for.
James
I for one will have to start watching this 'Without a Trace' show much closer in the hopes^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H to make sure no one has to see this type of thing again!
Since they say you can not define pornography but can point it out when you see it, as part of my crusade against this smut I may have to watch the entire collection of Girls-Gone-Wild videos so that I know what it is that I am looking for.
If only the internet could help me in my research...hmmm...off to Google.
Seriously, is this the best thing people have to do with their time? In the time it took these people to write a complaint to the FCC they could have talked to their kids and probably done a lot more good.
My kids are way under the age bracket to worry much about shows like this but, if I felt they were old enough to watch 'Without a Trace' with me (even though it was probably obvious from the beginning of the show that it was going to involve teen sex.) and this part snuck up on us ("How odd...the start of the show was about kittens and ducks and then, after the commercial break, BAM! teen orgy!") I think I would perhaps ask them to leave the room. Or, depending upon their age and maturity level, talk to them about what we just saw and what they thought about it. I would then have an opportunity to hear how and what they think and to pass on some of my values. If my wife and I have been doing a decent job, those two things should not be worlds apart.
Sorry for the rant but people need to start taking responsibility for themselves and their families! Keeping 'dirty' stuff off the airwaves is not your job as a parent. Teaching and showing your kids right from wrong is.
James
But only if you sit by the window near Milton Waddams
"...I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were married, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much..."
Gotta love Office Space!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/
James
Paintball...swapped in.
Like many others, I did not attempt to view the video of the airsoft hack but, the link below shows a similar idea, although with a paint ball gun, which tracks very quickly. This also looks to be more sturdy.
http://www.robot.net/shootback.html
Sorry, but there is no Jehovah's Witness recognition (that I know of). Just tell all your friends to knock and slave this to the door bell!
James
While not as cool as the one in this article and probably not quite what the former submariner is looking for...My 5yo son and I have fun with the RC submarine we picked up at Walmart for $19.99.
Once you get it properly balanced, it is just slightly positively buoyant. This means that you have to always provide downward thrust to keep it submerged but it also means that you are less likely to lose it.
For $20 it is fairly sturdy and gives you full control:
forward/reverse,
left/right
submerge/surface
All using 3 or 4 thrusters. 3 or 4 because I do not remember if left/right are one reversable or two independent thrusters. Submerge/surface uses one reversable as does (obviously) the main prop. This was $ well spent.
I think you hit the nail on the head. It's the control they do not want to lose. The number of contracts each of their states gets will probably not change much. After all, I would imagine that it will be the companies who already do this sort of thing who will win most of the prizes.
It would be tough for a startup to win when competing against the likes of Lockheed Missile and Space or who ever. They already have money, infrastructure, staff, experience, etc...
The only thing I see changing some is that you will have other large companies getting into the game, which may shift some small amount of the money to other states. For instance, if there is a prize to build a rover, Ford may decide that they are much of the way there and enter the contest. Assuming they win, some NASA money will get shifted to Michigan. A state which, up until that time, may not have gotten many aerospace contracts.
Having said all of that. I think it is a GREAT idea and, while I do not believe it will suddenly tear down the walls keeping the small guy out of the rocket ship business (as some of the posts have suggested) I do think that it would be a fantastic to save moeny and open things up a bit.
Hopefully we can convince the govt types that they will not be losing $, only a bit of control (not sure which is more important to them, probably the control since they have enough $)
The flip side of this is if we can convince the historically non-aerospace states that this is their chance to get in the game. Perhaps, if there are enough of them, they could tip the scales and get this passed / funded. I hate to vote against my home state (California (southern at lest) has received a fair amount of the NASA budget) but, again, in reality I believe most of the prizes will be one by the same groups as get the contracts now.
James
In summary...it will not change the who nearly as much as it will change the how (as in how much money NASA can save.).
Why is some sort of Reveal Codes not on all word processors?
It gave word processing, HTML like features but, only when you wanted them. I can not tell you how many times I have gotten stuck in modern versions of word with underline or bold or whatever, being over zealous. It wants to do the entire word or line or what ever.
Using my trusty WP 5.1 for DOS (loaded off of a single floppy (double density no less) on an old PS/1) I could hit F11 and (as Emeril says) BAM!! There is the [BOLD] and the [bold] tag. I could move either of them right where I wanted them.
That was almost 20 years ago...damn...I may be old...
James
Back in my day, where I grew up...Dunsmuir CA...we drove to Medford for fun! And listened to KTMT because we liked Charly and Dan-o and the Morning Zoo crew...(now where is my 'Nu Shooz' tape?)
Ok so that was a long time ago (around 30 - 25 yesrs ago or so) but still...
James
--
Want to be your own boss?
Whit if, however you decide to get the power (wind, solar, hydro, etc...) you use some of the electricity you gather, to pump water up into a storage tank or a small pond that is at a higher grade? Then, when you need it, you let it fall back down into the river, and generate some power on its way.
There will obviously be some loss but, if you use power that you do not need / are not able to sell back to the grid anyway, you are not really loosing anything.
Eliminating some batteries would also eliminate some of the environmental impact that old batteries have when they are EOL.
I think they did something like this on the Columbia River (perhaps a bit bigger scale than you are looking for, but the idea is the same.) James -- Want to be your own boss? 1) Drink Bawls 2) turn the emptys into lamps and drinking glasses 3) ? 4) Profit!!
Have you tried to visit the link at the bottom of the page?...nobodys home. At least that I saw.
I just mentioned it above but, now that I know you are using Debian, it is especially APT (get it? Ha ha ha). Check out FAI . As I said before, I have never used it but it looks like it may be just the thing.
My favorite sig? A sig-sauer.
I have not used it but I have seen a little bit about Debian's FAI
It looks like it combines a lot of the good ideas from the other suggestions (no CD's required and Kickstart type of install) And, if you combined it with a cache of the packages for apt-get or used the mkdebmirror script, you would also lessen the network load.
-I learned in health class that sig's will stunt yoru growth
That sounds like questions 10 and 11 from the server survey. How do you answer those? I may have misread them but they sounded like a very loaded questions to me.
James
No more MP3's. People will start trading record groove files. Down load and 'press' your own 45's!
Who's with me?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
For the age challenged, a 45 is a record...it was a little bigger than a CD but served the same purpose. (except for hanging it from the rear view mirror...which you should not do anyway as it does not look cool)
Thats all for today, class.
Next weeks vocabulary lesson will include such terms as:
Album and 'b' side
and in math we will cover fractions:
33 1/3
In art class...well of coarse:
cover art
Thank you and remember to do your homework!